Sunday, June 22, 2014

Someone left the cake out in the rain...

I am baking my brudder his birthday cake for his birthday party tonight. It has to be gluten free and dairy free and I'm up to the challenge. He requested banana something so I dug out the old Joy of Cooking and am adapting their yummy banana cake recipe. It's a delicious cake and should be moist enough to convert over to gluten free (gluten free flour mix, guar gum and an adjustment of the flour and leavening amounts). I found dairy free "cream cheese" too, so I can make some "cream cheese" (ish) icing and put some slices of banana between the 2 layers and doll it all up.
Should be tasty!

I've always wanted to be a jogger, but am too much of a slacker. SO I signed up for a marathon...and I DID it :) I have lost, and kept off, ~50 pounds in the past few years by changing the way I move and eating better.

I also love bellydancing. After a knee injury I've been exploring all kinds of new ways to be fit to supplement running. During grad school I took advantage of my school gym and begun Operation Uberfrau - stepping it up to focus on a more healthy me.

In 2013 I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer and came through my treatments with a complete pathological response. With this new year of 2015 I am determined to move forward and rebuild my body after chemo and take my healthy journey through all of this new adventure called life. Because people - Life is good :)

I started this blog to keep me motivated. I don't know how interesting you'll find it all to read, but if you keep up with me, we can do it together!

Crazy Lady

I'm a nice person. No really, I am.
I'm definitely not trying to create a monster in my lab and I'm definitely not working on a cure for cancer...OK so I hope the research I do might help cure cancer some day...the monster thing just sounds more cool...if being a scientist can be said to be cool...umm...
hey what's that over there?
(whoosh!)